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Study examined self-reported and objective sleep disturbance in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and explored possible relationships among sleep architecture and self-reported sleep quality, fatigue, and daytime sleepiness. Forty-four community-dwelling adults with TBI completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue (MAF), and the ...

Study examined the relationship between ratings of sleep dysfunction and serial cognitive assessments among patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) over the first 3 week of acute neurorehabilitation. Sleep-wake cycle disturbance (SWCD) was assessed using the Delirium Rating Scale-Revised 98 and cognitive recovery was measure with the Cognitive ...

Study assessed the test-retest reliability of the Ohio State University Traumatic Brain Injury Identification Method (OSU TBI-ID), modified for use as a computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI), to capture traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other substantial bodily injuries. Four subsamples of 50 individuals, including people with no major lifetime injury, ...

Article reports findings from a citation analysis of the top 100 most frequently cited neurorehabilitation papers to describe the research trends in the field. A search of papers indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database yielded 52,581 papers. A candidate pool of the 200 most-cited papers published ...

Study examined the employment discrimination experiences of older workers (55 and over) with disabilities in comparison to younger adult workers with disabilities. The study utilized data from the Integrated Mission System of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to investigate the nature of employment discrimination charges that ...

Broadened Horizons, Brighter Futures (BHBF), a transition project in Miami-Dade County, Florida, was the focus of an evaluation of services and work incentives for youth who were receiving disability payments. Notable features of BHBF included paid work experiences for youth and the application of external technical assistance in implementing ...

Article reviews the theoretical foundations of environmental factors (EFs) as they relate to their impact on participation, and suggests how theory can support the development of environmental measures. The authors discuss different approaches to the measurement of EFs, emphasize the need for greater conceptual clarity in the dynamic relationship ...

Article describes a development project intended to increase awareness and use of new product development (NPD) tools within a specific segment of new product developers: federally funded “technology grantees” who are charged with generating innovations that have socioeconomic impacts. The authors review the creation of the NPD tool repository, ...

Article summarizes key concepts from a study aimed at the development of a rehabilitation treatment taxonomy that has the potential to improve the way that physical therapist and other rehabilitation professionals describe the care they provide to patients.

Article describes efforts underway to create a rehabilitation treatment taxonomy (RTT) for classifying rehabilitation interventions by the underlying treatment theories that explain their effects. In the RTT, treatments are grouped together according to their targets, or measurable aspects of functioning they are intended to change; ingredients, or measurable clinician ...

Study identified life satisfaction trajectories after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), identified factors at 1-year postinjury that predict these life satisfaction trajectories, and determined how individuals in distinct life satisfaction trajectory groups differ from one another. Data were collected at 1, 2, and 5 years post TBI from 3,012 ...

Study investigated the influence of race, gender, functional ability, and an array of preinjury, injury-related, and sociodemographic variables on life satisfaction trajectories over 10 years following moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Using data from the TBI Model Systems database, a total of 3,157 individuals with TBI were included in ...

Article provides a critical review of the key aspects of the transition from school to adulthood for youth with autism spectrum disorders and identifies recommendations for policy and practice. The review highlights the literature and explores recommendations across the various elements of this transition, including social and psychological development, ...

Study examined the prevalence of employment and characteristics of transition planning practices that promoted positive school-to-work transition for students with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Data on the 200 participants was drawn from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS-2), a ten-year study which followed a large nationally representative sample of ...

This review was conducted to determine the effectiveness of pre-graduation behavioral and social interventions that prepare transition-age youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) for mainstream competitive employment after graduation. Relevant studies were identified through electronic searches of 30 computerized databases. The searches produced a total of 5,665 citations. Of ...

Article describes a project underway to increase accessibility of standardized instruments for individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) and communicate using American Sign Language (ASL). The researchers propose the development of an online suite of valid assessment instruments in ASL focusing on substance abuse, mental health, ...

This scoping review summarizes clinical research from the past 10 years that evaluates the relationship between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Alzheimer’s disease. This review identified five studies that found increased risk for dementia after TBI, two studies that found no increased risk, and four studies that found a ...

Study examined how family caregivers of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) describe their quality of life in the context of their caregiving role. Fifty-two caregivers of adults with moderate or severe TBI (31 parents and 21 partners/spouses) were recruited from three data collection sites to participate in focus ...